Reclining-chair



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REGLINING CHAIR.

No. 279,115. Patented June 12, 18183.

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R. ADAMS.

' REGLINING CHAIR.

No. 279,115. Patented June' 12,1883.

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RICHARD ADAMS, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

RECLINING-CHAI R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 279,115, dated June 12, 1883.

Application filed June 1879.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, RICHARD ADAMS, of Boston, of the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Reclining-Chairs; and I. do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a top view, Fig.2 a side elevation, and Figs. 3 and 4 longitudinal sections, of a chair-frame provided with my invention. Fig. 5 is ahorizontal section of one of the arms, showing the lever-latch within it. The plane of section of Fig. 3 is at the middle of the chair, while that of Fig. 4 is through one of the arms.

In this chair the foot or leg rest carrier or carrying-frame is supported by curved guides applied to the chair-seat frame and arranged so as to cause the said rest, while the carrier is being drawn forward from a horizontal position within the seati'rame, to rise upward, in order to bring the cushion of the said rest, when up into its highest position, on or about on a level with the seatcushi on of the chair. The said rest is provided at or near its middle with sustaining-notches, and is connected with the carrier by a bell-crank or radial arms pivoted to both carrier and rest, such being to enable the rest to be moved down within the carrier and to be drawn upward out of it and sustained without the necessity of revolving the said rest or turning it over in the meantime, so as to reverse its cushion, whether to turn it face upward or downward. Furtl'iermore, the chair has movable or sliding arm-rests adapted to slide rectilinearly on the arms of the scat-frame, and connected therewith and with the pivoted movable back-frame by springs, angular levers, and connection-rods, the arm-rests being provided with toothed racks and the arms with lever-latches to operate with such racks, and all being substantially ash ereinafter described.

In the drawings, 'A denotes the chair-seat frame, having a movable back, G, pivoted or hinged to ,its rear legs, a a, and also having two arms, B B, each of which has resting on its top and movable rectilinearly thereupon an arm-rest, 0. Fixed to the seat-frame are two curved guides, D D, which are grooved length wise on their inner sides to receive studs 1) b b b, projecting from the opposite sides of a guides D being shown at ein Fig. 3.

leg-rest carrier, E, one of the grooves of the Fig. 6 is a transverse section of the two guides D D, while Fig. 7 is a top view of the leg-rest carrier and its supporting-studs b b 'b I).

The'legrest shown at F is a rectangular frame notched in each of its side bars, as shown at (I, such notches being to receive the front end bar, 6, of the carrying-frame E, when the leg-rest and its carrier may be in their extreme outer positions. The leg-rest is to be properly cushioned, it being connected with the carrier or carrying-frame E by radial arms 1), arranged within the latter and pivoted thereto and to the leg-rest, there being to each of the sides of the carrying-frame two studs, 9 71, that project therefrom, they serving to support the legrest when it is down within the carrier. In this case the radial. arms rest on the two rear studs, the leg-rest being sustained on the front ones. Instead of separated radial arms, I prefer to connect them or constitute their parts of a bell-crank, as shown in Fig. 8, which may have its wrist connected with the leg-rest by staples s, embracing it and insertedin the legrest. forward in its grooves, rises at its front end in. order to correspondingly elevate the leg rcst. Such leg-rest, when drawn out of its carrier, will be sustained by the pivotal arms and the front bar of the carrier, the notches and pivotal arms serving to preventthe leg-rest, under a weight upon it, from tilting 011 the said front bar. After the leg-rest may have been folded back within its carrier the latter may bepushedrearward entirely within the seat frame of the chair, as a drawer goes into its case. g

Each sliding arm-rest C is pivoted to an an gular lever, H, at or near its vertex or bend, the longer arm of such lever being pivoted to the chair-back. The shorter arm of the lever has hinged to it a rod, I, provided with ahead, 71-. This rod extends through an eye, i, at the end of a coil-spring, K, arranged within the chair-arm and duly fastened thereto. Between the said eye i and head h is a helical spring,

7, which rests against them and has the rod I The leg-rest carrier,- while being drawn being broken while being contracted, as in practice it is liable to be without the auxiliary,

spring.

From each arm-rest a toothed rack, 17:, extends down within a groove, n, in the arm, the arm-rests being grooved lengthwise to receive the angular lever. A lever-latch, a, provided with an operative spring, 0, is arranged within and pivoted to the arm and co-operates with the rack in holding the armrest in position. The latch projects out of the arm in manner as shown in Fig. 1. On moving the latches inward so as to disengage them from the racks the chair-back may be turned down to such inclination as may be desirable for a sitter, it being held in such position by the latches and racks. During the movement of the leg-rest, either forward or backward relatively to its carrier, the cushion of such leg-rest is always face upward, the leg-rest not requiring to be revolved a half-revolution in the meantime, as in various other chairs, in order to be moved into either of its extreme positions. Furthermore, the springs for drawing forward the back and the arm-rests are in between the sidecoverings of their arms, and thus out of sight when the chair-is upholstered. I

I claim as of my invention as follows:

1. The combination of the movable arm-rests C with the chair-seat frame A and its arms B and movable or hinged back G, and with the connecting-levers H and the. vretractive main springs K and rods I, arranged and applied substantially as set forth, the said arms and arn1-rests being provided with racks and latching devices and all being to operateessentially as specifiec 1 2. The combination ofthe movable arm-rests 0, provided with latching devices, as described, 

